Change Quotes
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.Richard Clark
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
Things do not change we change.Henry David Thoreau
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.A. N. Whitehead
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.James Baldwin
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.Donald J. Adams
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.Hillary Rodham Clinton
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.Benjamin Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.William James
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.Hugh Prathe
Opinions are made to be changed - Or how is the truth to be got at.Lord Byron
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - If they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.Andre Gide
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.Alfred North Whitehead
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.Erich Fromm
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.Millard Fillmore
Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.Jerry Frankhause
Money is always there, but the pockets change.Gertrude Stein
People change and forget to tell eachother.Lillian Hellman
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.Theodor Reik
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.George Bernard Shaw
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.Carl R. Rogers
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.Sara Teasdale
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.Tom Clancy
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.John F. Kennedy
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
